RE: Proposed changes to DMCA

["Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>]

> "It's a broad overreach to have a person arrested under the federal
> criminal laws simply because they made software that circumvents a
> technological measure," Boucher said. Boucher said his office will draft a
> bill to be introduced later this year.

Now this is an argument I can get behind.  I don't think writing the
software should, in itself, be a criminal offense.  Using the software to
actually hack into someone else's intellectual property is what gives me
more pause.

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